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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:13:24 AM EST
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Pics?
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:14:03 AM EST
[#2]
I seem to be having a problem with my computer:
the pictures aren't loading  .
Anyone else having this problem? |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:14:12 AM EST
[#3]
Thanks for the report, keep up the good work?
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:15:15 AM EST
[#4]
I think its fixed now
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:18:55 AM EST
[#5]
 Meh...that will buff out!  Fixed the photo link for you buddy! |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:19:45 AM EST
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Let me help you with that (using the link in the edited OP):
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:20:30 AM EST
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I think its fixed now A little elbow grease and they will be good as new. Can you send one to Old Painless? |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:20:46 AM EST
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a little hoppe's and a bore snake and they'll be g2g
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:22:57 AM EST
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The one in the pic still had the sling. I am sure if I touched it it would fall apart.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:23:27 AM EST
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Why are you not taking them home?
I would find them to be a fun project to clean up. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:25:33 AM EST
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I TOLD you I lost them in a boating accident!!! |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:26:20 AM EST
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I think the whole Island would freak out if I started bringing up guns.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:26:40 AM EST
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Quoted: Why are you not taking them home? I would find them to be a fun project to clean up. Japan is not very gun friendly. I wonder what they would do if you got caught on the beach with those. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:29:35 AM EST
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Why are you not taking them home? I would find them to be a fun project to clean up. Japan is not very gun friendly. I wonder what they would do if you got caught on the beach with those. Based on past precedent, it probably wouldn't be surrender. Unlike France. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:41:56 AM EST
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That salt water and warm temps have probably turned them into nothing more than clumps of rust in the shape of a Garand.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:44:11 AM EST
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:47:18 AM EST
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Why are you not taking them home? I would find them to be a fun project to clean up. Japan is not very gun friendly. I wonder what they would do if you got caught on the beach with those. Based on past precedent, it probably wouldn't be surrender. Unlike France. Lol. Garand toting American wades up on the beach at Okinawa.....65 years late. OMG! It's a plot for a zombie flic!
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:50:46 AM EST
[#18]
Great pics and Im jealous of you being able to see American History like that
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:53:51 AM EST
[#19]
Just awesome. Thanks for sharing this.
My dad served over there in WWII (RIP). |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:55:30 AM EST
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My grandfather also served here
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Posted: 10/15/2011 2:56:56 AM EST
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ATF is going to lock you up for blowing their japan gun walker scheme.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:13:14 AM EST
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makes me wonder what the story is behind them.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:13:28 AM EST
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The Rock in the 1950s was a freakin' gold mine for this stuff.. not that anything salvaged was worth anything except as scrap. There were several sunken Allied ammo ships from the invasion in
Futenma Bay. items were frequently found on the beaches. EOD could not keep up with the frequent reporting of new stuff. I was there as an Army brat and reports of locals blown up from salvaging UXO were very common. My brother and I found dud mortar rounds, arty, and even cases of Japanese ammo. . and a badly damaged very small field gun, I think it was called a pack howitzer. I found a Ma Deuce barrel in the sandhills within a hundred yards of HQ, 3rd MARDIV. Fun days for a kid. '03 |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:13:31 AM EST
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very cool thank you for sharing
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:32:26 AM EST
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I am wondering if that could possibly be a WWII grave site. Like a landing craft went down and you found some equipment from it.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:35:40 AM EST
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Just part of ATF "Gunswimer"
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:36:39 AM EST
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In that area you can also find some BARs and 4 Flame Throwers my camera jammed so I didnt get thost pics. There was also a barrell from a 20mm AA gun
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:36:43 AM EST
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That's sad.
Your cat is HUGE! |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:40:15 AM EST
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Cat? They told me it was a Asian Striped Ferret. I knew they were trying to trick me.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 3:42:36 AM EST
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He's dead Jim...too bad.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 4:52:11 AM EST
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In the near future I will be going down to the USS Emmons. That dive takes some planning cause to the top of the main guns its at 120'.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 4:58:43 AM EST
[#32]
Very interesting.
I wonder what the story is. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:08:24 AM EST
[#33]
Very cool and sad at the same time.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:10:49 AM EST
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First thought, whose were they
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:11:51 AM EST
[#35]
Cool but sad all in one..
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:15:01 AM EST
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A little elbow grease and they will be good as new. Can you send one to Old Painless? Better throw in a little steel wool.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:33:35 AM EST
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Oh i'm sure a new stock and a re barrel from the CMP and those rifles will be ready for action again.
My Garand salutes it's fallen brothers. 
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:33:36 AM EST
[#38]
Cool pics.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:35:56 AM EST
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Those appear to have war issue serial numbers. They will bring a premium. Bravo!
Thanks for posting OP. Nice photos. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:37:15 AM EST
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Quoted: Quoted: A little elbow grease and they will be good as new. Can you send one to Old Painless? Better throw in a little steel wool. Bronze wool won't hurt the finish. http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_11151_10001_103438_-1?cid=chanintel_google&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=103438 |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:38:34 AM EST
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If they're pulled up, you'll have to soak them for a year in fresh water to desalinate them.
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:41:29 AM EST
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Semper Fi!
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:43:26 AM EST
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A little elbow grease and they will be good as new. Can you send one to Old Painless? Better throw in a little steel wool. How much WD-40 do you estimate for this job? 
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:44:30 AM EST
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Pacific Islands are great for that kind of stuff. I got to dive a B-29 wreck that we know had some casualties. It's quite an experience. I've always been curious how equipment would hold up in deep water, like beyond 6000 feet where it couldn't get encrusted with coral. If you could get that deep you might find some artifacts preserved well enough to wall hang at least. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:48:37 AM EST
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:49:19 AM EST
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I think I saw those at a gun show for $1200
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Posted: 10/15/2011 5:50:49 AM EST
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A little elbow grease and they will be good as new. Can you send one to Old Painless? Better throw in a little steel wool.
And possibly every gadget that Ron Popeil ever pitched on TV. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 8:31:29 AM EST
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My grandfather was on Okinawa in late 1945. He had photographs of wrecked planes being bulldozed into the ocean, jeeps being pushed off barges, and huge piles of US and Japanese arms being tossed into the briny deep. Asked him one time why they didn't just bury them, and the answer was that the ocean was an easier disposal process. He mentioned there had been a big typhoon that started the process and a lot of good material that could have been saved was ruined. So they got rid of the rest.
Our family accompanied my Dad when he was stationed on Okinawa from 1967 to 1972 and there wasn''t a place on the island you couldn't find something if you dug a bit. Found a rusted sword in my own backyard - shallow buried under our clothesline. My school had been a POW camp and I found cartridges, belt buckles and other items all over the playground. There were beaches you weren't allowed on from all the ordnance still surfacing. One of the kids in my school managed to blow off his arm with a shell he found in a cave on Kadena AFB. Every year we'd get a lecture in school from the EOD folks. There was a creepy place, overgrown in the jungle - an arched concrete hanger that had the remains of a fighter plane inside. One day the base folks bricked/concreted the ends of the hanger closed with that plane still inside. There was a ruined Japanese military hospital in the middle of the base golf course. One day, a portion of the ground nearby fell in and a buried room was found with several beds and skeletons. Each year, Japanese come to Okinawa and search for bones - they turn up enough each year for them to keep coming back. Talked one time to the curator of the military museum near Sukiran, who took me into the back and showed me 55-gallon drums filled with rusty Nambus, Arisakas turned in by military dependents and MPs. Wonder what ever happened to all those relics. rongorongo |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 8:34:43 AM EST
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My grandfather was on Okinawa in late 1945. He had photographs of wrecked planes being bulldozed into the ocean, jeeps being pushed off barges, and huge piles of US and Japanese arms being tossed into the briny deep. Asked him one time why they didn't just bury them, and the answer was that the ocean was an easier disposal process. He mentioned there had been a big typhoon that started the process and a lot of good material that could have been saved was ruined. So they got rid of the rest. Our family accompanied my Dad when he was stationed on Okinawa from 1967 to 1972 and there wasn''t a place on the island you couldn't find something if you dug a bit. Found a rusted sword in my own backyard - shallow buried under our clothesline. My school had been a POW camp and I found cartridges, belt buckles and other items all over the playground. There were beaches you weren't allowed on from all the ordnance still surfacing. One of the kids in my school managed to blow off his arm with a shell he found in a cave on Kadena AFB. Every year we'd get a lecture in school from the EOD folks. There was a creepy place, overgrown in the jungle - an arched concrete hanger that had the remains of a fighter plane inside. One day the base folks bricked/concreted the ends of the hanger closed with that plane still inside. There was a ruined Japanese military hospital in the middle of the base golf course. One day, a portion of the ground nearby fell in and a buried room was found with several beds and skeletons. Each year, Japanese come to Okinawa and search for bones - they turn up enough each year for them to keep coming back. Talked one time to the curator of the military museum near Sukiran, who took me into the back and showed me 55-gallon drums filled with rusty Nambus, Arisakas turned in by military dependents and MPs. Wonder what ever happened to all those relics. rongorongo They did the same thing in the Aleutian Islands after WWII. Now the entire north shore of Adak island is off limits because of the UXO washing ashore. Duh. |
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Posted: 10/15/2011 8:49:22 AM EST
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Why are you not taking them home? I would find them to be a fun project to clean up. i don't know the area, but it may be a "protected area"..kind of like taking stuff off of the USS Arizona. Many wreck areas that divers visit are fine for diving...but illegal to disturb or take anything. |
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